Manitoba farmer Larcombe’s thirty years of triumphs
The life and career of Me Larcombe, a Manitoba farmer born in a Devon village, spans thirty years of mounting success. Immigrant to Winnipeg then a district, he built a thriving operation, earned 134 awards by 1905 and 1405, and became famed for vegetable and grain exhibits, wheat, and pioneering Western Canadian farming. His record includes three thousand prizes, international recognition, and promotion of Western Canada’s agricultural potential.
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Latrcombe Iba
Western Canada
Me Larcombe
Manitoba
Keatiaas
Devon
Combe
Pulatapdlig
Eric Jeb Isles
Winnipeg
Bittle
Everson
Nasi Penton
Larbeth
World Happenings Briefly Told From The Empire
A garbled year-end world brief notes Carter repair of Sir Christopher Wren’s St Paul’s Cathedral with £100,000 sought for restoration. Mentions colonial governors, Canadian governor general, unemployment benefits in Britain, imperial delegations, and wartime reparations. References to Dardanelles, naval blockades, and Honduran war losses and wartime measures.
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Ring
Lutter Md Craddock
Karna
Paul's
Temous
Valhalla
Christener Wren
Carter
Great Britain
Dardanelles
Honduras
Republ
Railway genius Jack Stewart of Assynt Timeline
In wartime exploits described, Jack Stewart from Assynt emerges as a railway contracting prodigy. He trains under Scottish engineers, contracts lines and bridges, and earns high honors for rapid project completion. His career spans Canada and Britain, with ties to wartime road and rail tasks and later civic ambitions. Graves Worm Eradicator discussed briefly as a public health claim.
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Ara Jahn Siena
Trarap
Stewart
New
Quebec
Jack Stewart
Tim
Montana
Wade
Downing Street
Lloyd George
Canada
Duck
Sutherlandshire
Vamly
Moi Graves
Eyterminator
Ada Boen
German Nature Not Changed by Government Order
The Ottawa Journal writes that the German Republican Government cannot alter human nature or the essence of the state. It argues the press remains under official control, merely rebranded, and warns against trusting that the nation behind the Lusitania sinking and Raith Cavell’s murder has become benevolent overnight.
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German Republic
Russia
Ireland
Lusitania
Raith Cavell
Angel
Ottawa Journal
The Strike Problem in the Public Press
Richard Spillane argues strikes persist until causes are removed and asks how to solve this solvable issue. He credits a blend of agrarian heritage, industrial shift, common sense, and the Golden Rule as the path to reducing strikes and their horrors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whettier Emprose
Keep Children Well During Hot Weather
A fragmented note advises mothers to keep Baby's Own Tablets on hand to prevent stomach troubles in hot weather. It promotes use by occasional dosing to avert or ease illness, claiming the remedy helps babies through common tummy upsets and is sold by dealers and Dr Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ontario.
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Moi
Monte
Thisme
Elven
Andy
Kate
Dr Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ancient English shipwreck inspires cotton base for tower
Fragmented notes describe using cotton in sandy soil as foundation material for a tower between the Mersey and Dee. The wreck of a cotton ship offered an idea after washed cotton mixed with sand formed a firm base amid earlier salt base search difficulties. The text also mentions a pain remedy and Inca horsegear decoration with ghastly relics.
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England
Mersey
Dee
Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry Claim
Mrs Ervin Stairs East notes using Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry for summer complaints and says it cured cholera and blood in urine in her family. She warns neighbors who could not obtain it and urges insisting on the original product from The T Milburn Co Limited Toreate.
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DR. Fowler
Ervin W. Stairs
Astounding Forecast Warns Global Quake Death Toll
A historical clipping cites A. Nobtes, a Syracuse University graduate, predicting massive earthquakes destroying southern Europe and northern Africa, with widespread deaths. The forecast allegedly covers Asia and warns the Western United States beyond the Rockies to vanish by a dated eruption. The fragmentary text reflects sensational tremor lore from early disaster forecasting.
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Nith
Ays
Europ
Africa
Asi
A. Nobtes
A As Sis
Syracuse University
United States
Rocky Mountains
Bn Dr. Noble
Er Ja
Strange Classified Scribbles From A Hodgepodge Page
A jumbled notice set offers farm work with men and piano lessons declined by a farmer, plus odd requests and scattered quotes. It threads through miscellaneous lines about coin forms, religious shifts, and historical quips, including a stray jab at Napoleon and a rhapsody of assorted phrases. The fragmentary text presents a collage of 19th and 20th century style snippets.
Story Of Heroism In Montreal Ship Disaster
A dramatic account narrates a hero’s brave act during a gale off August 4 in Montreal as a ship fought to port. The second officer was lost, a sailor named Nieree ordered a lifeboat to rescue two others who were saved, while the officer vanished from sight. Yellowstone Park figures briefly with measurements noted.
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Neroim Atso
Montreal
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John Ross
Maid of He Mts
Niagara Falls
Lake
Foreign Trade Department
Calgary
London
Ontario Bile Association
Great Briain
Mt Guardians
Vireat W Veterans’ Association
Vietaca
Ae Ea Ier Itei
Minard’s Liniment Reeves Neuraigit
Richard Spillane
Philadelphia
Neucasia
Thomas
East
Kansas
LwMi
Boshevan
Studren
Lary
Napoleon
Mattery
Minard’e Linimani
Burns
Seanen
Yellowstone Park
Sid How
MD Ren Ly
Caneta, Limited
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